Research Officer

Job Title - Research Coordinator

Service - Coram Impact & Evaluation Team

Reporting to - Research Manager

Salary range - £28,000 - £30,000 per annum (or pro rata)

Work pattern - Full time or 0.8 FTE (for flexible working, including term-time working)

Location - Flexible, with an expectation of working at Coram’s campus in London on average at least twice a week and home-based.

Contract type - Fixed Term until March 2025 (with possibility of the role becoming permanent). Start date: As soon as possible.

About the role

We are looking for someone with project management and coordination experience to join our growing Impact and Evaluation team as a Research Coordinator to develop and enhance the support function of the research team so that our research can help improve support for vulnerable children and young people, and ultimately make a positive difference in their lives.

This is not a research role but one focused on coordination and administration and would suit someone who is highly organised with extensive project management and administrative experience, preferably in a research environment.

The successful candidate will provide wrap around support to the team and our portfolio of research projects by helping to manage their administration, including capacity planning and project allocation as well as organising research processes such as interviews, liaison with funders etc. They will also support financial administration and when needed bid applications, contracting and research dissemination. In addition to working with our Research Ethics Committee and supporting the team’s work on ensuring equity, diversity and inclusion is at the forefront of our work. You will need to be flexible, pro-active, well-organised and willing to learn.

Working at Coram

As a valued member of Coram you will be entitled to a wide range of employee benefits including but not limited to:

• 25 days annual leave plus an additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay.
• Flexible working around the core hours 10am-4pm

• Staff are signed up to one of two pension schemes.
• Opportunity to join our various staff networks including our EDI forum.

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career including five days of Continuous Professional Development per year with a dedicated budget for external training.

About the application process

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that Coram truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. Therefore we are very committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community. This includes those from global majority groups, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, and those with neuro-diversity. If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We will make any reasonable adjustments at the interview stage for applicants invited to interview to support them in their interview.

Given Coram’s history with children’s social care, including adoption and fostering in England, we will provide a guaranteed interview for those that meet the essential criteria and tell us in their application that they are care experienced.

Being care experienced means you will have spent time living with foster carers under local authority care, in residential care (e.g. a children’s home), looked after at home under a supervision order, or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Wednesday 31st January.

We reserve the right to close this post if we get a high quality number of candidates.

Interview date: week commencing 5th February

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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